Life-Saving Course Development Tips from E-Learning Heroes

This blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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Week in and week out, there’s all kinds of heroism going on in the Articulate community. If you need to breathe some life into your e-learning courses, folks in the community are ready and willing to help! Here’s a snapshot of just some of the advice, insights, and resources your fellow community members exchanged over the last week or so:

Notable tutorials:

• Minimize the branding on YouTube videos that you insert into Articulate Presenter as web objects

• E-learning scenario idea: create a customized thought cloud with an image inside

• A free tool for applying artistic effects to your e-learning images

• How to use a free online survey tool to track course completion in Articulate Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• Creative ways of communicating dos & don’ts to learners

• How would you build this quiz question?

• A community member shares his unique & engaging first course

• Yikes! I have to do an Articulate training class for my co-workers!

• If I’d known then what I know now…

• What guidelines or ground rules do you give your clients before starting a project?

New blog posts:

• M-Learning 101: I’ll Take My Rapid E-Learning to Go

• Seed Systems E-Learning Course: Helping Communities Respond & Recover After Disaster

• How Good Graphic Design Helps Build Meaningful E-Learning

• Articulate Guru Honorable Mention: Understanding Safety Stock by Accenture Academy

Seen on Twitter:

• @learningcouncil shares “4 things I can’t stand about e-learning”

• @ArticulateDF shares 10 new PowerPoint 2010 SmartArt graphics and some creative uses for them

• @suchadrag shares tips on video scribing/animating on a shoestring for your e-learning courses

• @Kineodevelopers share a free Articulate Presenter skin

• @onEnterFrame shares a free widget for your courses that’ll redirect learners to a different web page when clicked